What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.

I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.